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My job is going to be to direct the film - I'm going to do it. And that's where my job ends.

Abel Ferrara

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Abel Ferrara
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: July 18
Actor
Film Actor
Film Director
Film Editor
Film Producer
Screenwriter
New York City
New York
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I'm about my characters.
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I come from a world where you get the film done, that's a success.
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Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.
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I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.
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I grew up in the '60s, which was a creative time, so it wasn't that big of a stretch to go from a baseball bat to a guitar to a film camera.
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Making money is not gonna change anything about what I am, except I won't answer the door.
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Listen, anybody who has a film festival has the right to show what they want.
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The last day of your life is still going to be a day.
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I don't have a problem with Werner Herzog.
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That's the thing about making a movie: You never finish editing. They just take it away from you.
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With 'New Rose Hotel,' I knew that I was getting paid a $100,000 fee to write, produce, and direct, and that's all I was going to get.
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I'm a lapsed Buddhist like I'm a lapsed Catholic. I take it to a point.
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I don't know what DVD commentaries are about. I'd like to strangle the person who came up with that concept.
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The more you get into any religion, it becomes the same. It really becomes how you treat other people and how you get outside yourself. How you look to help other people, and how you get out of this 'I, me, mine' type of thing.
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